NAME

       psftp - interactive SFTP (secure file transfer protocol) client

SYNOPSIS

       psftp [options] [user@]host

DESCRIPTION

       psftp is an interactive text-based client for the SSH-based SFTP (secure file transfer) protocol.

OPTIONS

       The command-line options supported by psftp are:

       -V     Show version information and exit.

       -pgpfp Display  the  fingerprints  of  the  PuTTY PGP Master Keys and exit, to aid in verifying new files
              released by the PuTTY team.

       -b batchfile
              Use specified batchfile.

       -bc    Output batchfile commands.

       -be    Don't stop batchfile processing on errors.

       -v     Show verbose messages.

       -load session
              Load settings from saved session.

       -P port
              Connect to port port.

       -proxycmd command
              Instead of making a TCP connection, use command as a proxy; network traffic will be redirected  to
              the  standard  input  and  output  of command. command must be a single word, so is likely to need
              quoting by the shell.

              The special strings %host and %port in command will be replaced by the hostname  and  port  number
              you want to connect to; to get a literal % sign, enter %%.

              Backslash  escapes  are  also  supported,  such  as  sequences like \n being replaced by a literal
              newline; to get a literal backslash, enter \\. (Further escaping may be required by the shell.)

              (See the main PuTTY manual for full details of the supported %-  and  backslash-delimited  tokens,
              although most of them are probably not very useful in this context.)

       -l user
              Set remote username to user.

       -batch Disable interactive prompts.

       -no-sanitise-stderr
              By  default, PSFTP will filter control characters from the standard error channel from the server,
              to prevent remote processes sending confusing escape sequences. This option  forces  the  standard
              error channel to not be filtered.

       -pwfile filename
              Open the specified file, and use the first line of text read from it as the remote password.

       -pw password
              Set  remote  password  to  password.  CAUTION: this will likely make the password visible to other
              users of the local machine (via commands such as `ps' or `w'). Use -pwfile instead.

       -1     Force use of SSH protocol version 1.

       -2     Force use of SSH protocol version 2.

       -ssh-connection
              Force use of the `bare ssh-connection' protocol. This is only likely to be useful when  connecting
              to a psusan(1) server, most likely with an absolute path to a Unix-domain socket in place of host.

       -ssh   Force  use  of the SSH protocol. (This is usually not needed; it's only likely to be useful if you
              need to override some other configuration of the `bare ssh-connection' protocol.)

       -4, -6 Force use of IPv4 or IPv6 for network connections.

       -C     Enable SSH compression.

       -i keyfile
              Private key file for user authentication. For SSH-2 keys, this key file must  be  in  PuTTY's  PPK
              format, not OpenSSH's format or anyone else's.

              If  you  are using an authentication agent, you can also specify a public key here (in RFC 4716 or
              OpenSSH format), to identify which of the agent's keys to use.

       -noagent
              Don't try to use an authentication agent.

       -agent Allow use of an authentication agent. (This option is only necessary to override a  setting  in  a
              saved session.)

       -no-trivial-auth
              Disconnect from any SSH server which accepts authentication without ever having asked for any kind
              of  password  or signature or token. (You might want to enable this for a server you always expect
              to challenge you, for instance to ensure you don't accidentally type your  key  file's  passphrase
              into a compromised server spoofing PSFTP's passphrase prompt.)

       -hostkey key
              Specify  an  acceptable host public key. This option may be specified multiple times; each key can
              be either a fingerprint (SHA256:AbCdE..., 99:aa:bb:..., etc) or a base64-encoded blob in OpenSSH's
              one-line format.

              Specifying this option overrides automated host key management; only the key(s) specified  on  the
              command-line  will  be  accepted  (unless  a saved session also overrides host keys, in which case
              those will be added to), and the host key cache will not be written.

       -sshlog logfile

       -sshrawlog logfile
              These options make psftp log protocol details to a file. (Some of these may be sensitive, although
              by default an effort is made to suppress obvious passwords.)

              -sshlog logs decoded SSH packets  and  other  events  (those  that  -v  would  print).  -sshrawlog
              additionally logs the raw encrypted packet data.

       -logoverwrite
              If PSFTP is configured to write to a log file that already exists, discard the existing file.

       -logappend
              If  PSFTP  is  configured  to  write to a log file that already exists, append new log data to the
              existing file.

COMMANDS

       For a list of commands available inside psftp, type help at the psftp> prompt.

MORE INFORMATION

       For more information on psftp it's probably best to go and look at the manual on the PuTTY web page:

       https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/

BUGS

       This man page isn't terribly complete. See the above web link for better documentation.

PuTTY tool suite                                   2004‐03‐24                                           psftp(1)